This personal reflection is part of a series called Turning Points, in which writers explore what critical moments from this ...

The August 2025 poll for the India Today Mood of the Nation (MOTN) offers a telling portrait of Indian democracy in flux, marked by contradictions, anxieties and a measure of guarded optimism. In ...

SACRAMENTO — An overwhelming number of California voters think American democracy is being threatened or, at the very least, tested, according to a new poll released Thursday by the UC Berkeley ...

The U.S. is not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover; we are in it. Donald Trump is acting on it methodically in broad ...

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

The collapse of traditional party systems is a familiar crisis across many contemporary democracies. Italian political scientist Piero Ignazi, writing in “The Crisis of Parties and the Rise of New ...

On Tuesday afternoon, the University of Georgia Applied Politics Program hosted members of the Democracy Defense Project in a ...

The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency have accelerated a process of democratic erosion in the United States. In just two months, the president and his allies have issued executive ...

We’ve reached the point where some of the strongest voices speaking against the Muskian overthrow of government are coming from the far right. If conservatives want to help protect our system of ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...

South Africa's democracy faces a critical impasse: voters continue supporting the ANC despite its failures, while opposition ...